All Reviews
Melancholy Danes
Ardor and Tenderness in China’s Capital
The Stuff Reading Is Made Of: Miéville’s YA and Materiality
“Vis-à-vis the mysteries of daily life”: On Diane Williams’s “Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine”
Sterilizing the Feebleminded
“The mind lives on the heart”: A Death Deferred
In her novel "The Heart," Maylis de Kerangal explores the limits, possibilities, and multiple meanings of death in a biomedicalized society.
Fantasy Foodie-ism and Unicorn Feminism
The pleasure in "The Life of Elves" is to be found in the fantasy of narrative's exquisite and immeasurable power.
A Mixtape Murder Mystery
"The Big Rewind" vacillates between crime novel, television teen drama, and a long playlist at the three a.m. hour somewhere left of the dial.
Love in the Time of Apocalypse
Like so much else in Charlie Jane Anders's "All the Birds in the Sky," the question of sanity is relative, not absolute.
On Extinction and Capitalism
"Extinction: A Radical History" is an accessible and politically engaged examination of our current age of mass extinction.
When Greece Appears
"Something Will Happen, You'll See" is for anyone interested in understanding the very human face of Greece's working class.
A Mother Gone Supernova
"The First Time She Drowned" is a brilliant YA novel that engages the complexities of mental illness.
Conversion and Its Discontents
Susan Jacoby, like many atheists, can’t stop thinking about religion.
Cult Classic
Bohumil Hrabal's short stories capture his shift toward total realism, and the moments of beauty against the stark contrast of the communist regime.
Migrations Gone Awry
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer's "La Superba" offers a look into the underbelly of Genoa's immigrant community.
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